I think that too many developers derisively dismiss The Waterfall Model as being somehow oldy-moldy and out of fashion.

The Waterfall Model doesn't work. I'm not citing (just) my own opinion here, but rather that of the man, Dr. Winston W. Royce, that first described the waterfall model.

Yep! The guy that 'invented' the Waterfall Model, said it didn't work. Indeed, when he first described it in his 1970 paper:"Managing The Development Of Large Software Systems", he did so explicitly to show why it didn't work, and what needed to be done to correct the method's inherent, designed-in, causes of failure.

See this For a potted history of how the mis-citing of the Royce paper, lead to it getting accidentally adopted by the US military in the early 70's; and thence forth by many other organisations who blindly copied them; before being universally abandoned by all of them in the mid to late 80's because it failed so badly, so often.

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” -- Sir Winston Churchill
With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

The start of some sanity?

In reply to Re: OpEd: Programming is not Team Sports by BrowserUk
in thread OpEd: Programming is not Team Sports by locked_user sundialsvc4

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